UPDATE: Troopers find body in Tongass Narrows

Authorities say the body of a man has been found floating in water off Ketchikan.

UPDATE:

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — A man found dead in waters off Ketchikan has been identified as a 63-year-old resident.

Alaska State Troopers say the state medical examiner identified the man as Harris Hunter Wood II.

An autopsy determined that Wood drowned.

Troopers shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday responded to a call of a body floating in Tongass Narrows off the North Tongass Highway.

ORIGINAL STORY:

Authorities say the body of a man has been found floating in water off Ketchikan.

The Ketchikan Daily News reports that Alaska State Troopers had responded Saturday night to a report of the body in the Tongass Narrows along a highway. The man was removed from the water and has not yet been identified.

Troopers say the State Medical Examiner's Office in Anchorage will conduct an autopsy.